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FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER
SATURDAY
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ENTRANCE ANTIPHON
You have been buried with Christ in Baptism,
through which you also rose again by faith
in the working of God,
who raised him from the dead,
alleluia.
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COLLECT
Almighty and eternal God,
who through the regenerating power of Baptism
have been pleased to confer on us
heavenly life,
grant, we pray,
that those you render capable
of immortality by justifying them
may by your guidance attain
the fullness of glory.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ,
your Son,
who lives and reigns with you
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God,
for ever and ever.
R.) Amen.
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FIRST READING
ACTS 16:1-10
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A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
(COME ACROSS TO MACEDONIA AND HELP US.)
From Cilicia Paul went to Derbe,
and then on to Lystra.
Here, there was a disciple called Timothy,
whose mother, was a Jewess
who had become a believer;
but his father was a Greek.
The brothers at Lystra and Iconium
spoke well of Timothy,
and Paul, who wanted to have him as a travelling companion,
had him circumcised.
This was on account of the Jews in the locality
where everyone knew his father was a Greek.
As they visited one town after another,
they passed on the decisions reached by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem,
with instructions to respect them.
So the churches grew strong in the faith,
as well as growing daily in numbers.
They travelled through Phrygia and the Galatian country,
having been told by the Holy Spirit
not to preach the word in Asia.
When they reached the frontier of Mysia
they thought to cross it into Bithynia,
but as the spirit of Jesus would not allow them,
they went through Mysia and came down to Troas.
One night Paul had a vision:
a Macedonian appeared
and appealed to him in these words,
“Come across to Macedonia and help us.”
Once he had seen this vision we lost no time in arranging a passage to Macedonia,
convinced that God had called us to bring them the Good News.
The word of the Lord.
R.) Thanks be to God.
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